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OpenJFX

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Welcome to OpenJFX. JavaFX is the next generation widget toolkit for the Java client. It is modern, efficient and full featured. OpenJFX is the open source version of the toolkit. OpenJFX is presently a subset of JavaFX, but over time, as more of JavaFX becomes open source, they will become the same.

History

The JavaFX toolkit evolved from the F3 project at Sun. Initial releases were based around the JavaFX scripting language, however, in 2011 the toolkit was completely rewritten in Java and released by Oracle as JavaFX 2.0. In October 2011 Oracle announced that it would donate the JavaFX toolkit to the open source community and by November 2011 the OpenJDK Community had agreed to take it on.

Status

The Project is currently focused on absorbing the existing code base from Oracle and building a functioning community around it. Oracle's code will be donated in phases with the initial piece being the UI Controls classes. Further sub-systems are expected in the coming months.

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Design Documents / Discussions

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is an open source, next generation client application platform for desktop and embedded systems for use with the JDK. It is a collaborative effort by many individuals and companies with the goal of producing a modern, efficient, and fully featured toolkit for developing rich client applications. This is the open source project where we develop JavaFX.

OpenJFX is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License with Classpath Exception, just like the JDK Project. Anybody is welcome to contribute to this project, port it to other platforms or devices, or do anything else that a free software license allows you to do! We welcome patches and involvement from individual contributors or companies. See the CONTRIBUTING document in our GitHub project for details on how to contribute. The Community section of this WIki has some supplementary information.

The OpenJFX Project is part of the OpenJDK open-source Community. The OpenJDK Bylaws and License govern our work. The OpenJFX project membership can be found on the OpenJDK Census.

  • Mailing lists
    • openjfx-dev - Technical discussion about JavaFX development

    • openjfx-discuss - General discussion about JavaFX features and roadmaps

    • openjfx-changes - Git commit notification for JavaFX repositories (openjdk/jfx*)

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